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Julian Charrière

Work by Julian Charrière

Biography

b. 1987, Morges (CH)

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Julian Charrière’s work is about the representation and perception of nature, and the traces and limits of human influence. His artistic approach reflects both historical and contemporary perspectives; he plays with the iconographies of landscape and the force of nature, as well as with our longing for authenticity and connection to nature. Charrière brings past, present and future into dialogue and makes different temporalities visible by allowing geological and human timescales to collide. Engaging with issues such as the effects of global warming or the treatment of the earth’s resources, his work addresses central discourses of the present.

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Julian Charrière

Controlled Burn, 2022

Film still
4K film, 16:9 aspect ratio, 3D ambisonic soundscape, continuous video loop, 32 minutes
4/5 (+2AP)
JC/V 31

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Julian Charrière

Controlled Burn, 2022

Film still
4K film, 16:9 aspect ratio, 3D ambisonic soundscape, continuous video loop, 32 minutes
4/5 (+2AP)
JC/V 31

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Julian Charrière

Controlled Burn, 2022

Film still
4K film, 16:9 aspect ratio, 3D ambisonic soundscape, continuous video loop, 32 minutes
4/5 (+2AP)
JC/V 31

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Julian Charrière

Vertigo, 2021

onyx, motor, lamp, soundtrack
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Julian Charrière

Soothsayer, 2021

anthracite coal, stainless steel
228.8 × 95 × 95.2 cm

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Julian Charrière

Soothsayer, 2021

anthracite coal, stainless steel
228.8 × 95 × 95.2 cm

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Julian Charrière

Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows, 2021

Obsidian block
49 × 76 × 98 cm

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Julian Charrière

Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows, 2021

Obsidian block
70 × 72 × 95 cm

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Julian Charrière

Limen 16.68° - WNW, 2021

Three-color photogravure printed with glacial rock specimen, each 100 × 76 cm (image) / 107 × 83 × 4.2 cm (framed)
3/5 + 2AP
JC/F 196

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Julian Charrière

Limen 16.73° – WNW, 2021

Three-color photogravure printed with glacial rock specimen
107 × 83 × 4.2 cm (framed)
Edition of 5 (+2AP)

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Julian Charrière

Limen 22.21° – WSW, 2021

Three-color photogravure printed with glacial rock specimen
107 × 83 × 4.2 cm (framed)
Edition of 5 (+2AP)

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Julian Charrière

Limen 14.07° – NW, 2021

Three-color photogravure printed with glacial rock specimen
107 × 83 × 4.2 cm (framed)
Edition of 5 (+2AP)

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Julian Charrière

Limen 19.65° – E, 2021

Three-color photogravure printed with glacial rock specimen
107 × 83 × 4.2 cm (framed)
Edition of 5 (+2AP)

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Julian Charrière

Limen 19.62° – W, 2021

Three-color photogravure printed with glacial rock specimen
107 × 83 × 4.2 cm (framed)
Edition of 5 (+2AP)

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Julian Charrière

Pure Waste, 2021

FHD color video, 16:10 aspect ratio, stereo sound, 5 min 30 sec
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An Invitation to Disappear, 2018

Single-channel video installation, UHD color film, Ambisonics 3D-soundscape
Soundtrack by Inland
Format 2.35:1, 76'44"
JC/V 21

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Julian Charrière

An Invitation to Disappear, 2018

Single-channel video installation, UHD color film, Ambisonics 3D-soundscape
Soundtrack by Inland
Format 2.35:1, 76'44"
JC/V 21

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Julian Charrière

An Invitation to Disappear – Pakang, 2018

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, mounted on aluminium dibond, framed (walnut), Mirogard anti-reflective glass
153.8 × 191.3 cm
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Julian Charrière

Love-In Krakatoa, 2018

Borosilicate glass, stainless-steel, lamp, palm oil, distilled water
248 × 51.5 × 51.5 cm
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Julian Charrière

Not All Who Wander Are Lost, 2019

Glacial erratic rock, drill cores, aluminium (1), brass (2), copper (3), silver coated brass (1), steel (3)
overall: 79 × 365 × 72 cm
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Julian Charrière

Empire, 2019

dog sledge, 15 coonuts in lead sarcophagi, 104 × 77.3 × 242 cm

Coconut Lead Fondue - First Light, 2016

Large-format color-photograph, double-exposed through radioactive material, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, mounted on aluminium Dibond, red Palmira veneered frame, Mirogard anti-reflective glass
187.7 × 150.2 cm
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Julian Charrière

And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire, 2019

4k color video, 16:9 aspect ratio, stereo sound, continuous video loop
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Julian Charrière

Ever Since We Crawled Out, 2018

b/w-video from found footage, stereo sound
6 minutes 47 seconds, video loop
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Julian Charrière

Ever Since We Crawled Out, 2018

b/w-video from found footage, stereo sound
6 minutes 47 seconds, video loop
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Julian Charrière

Exhibition view at artgenève, Prix Moblilière 2018

Future Fossil Spaces – Set 11, 2017

salt from the Salar de uyuni, acrylic-containers filled with lithium-brine
286 × 156 × 150 cm
JC/S 40

Future Fossil Spaces – Set 9, 2017

salt from the Salar de uyuni, acrylic-containers filled with lithium-brine
286 × 193 × 104 cm
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Exhibition view at artgenève, Prix Moblilière 2018

Future Fossil Spaces – Set 9, 2017

salt from the Salar de uyuni, acrylic-containers filled with lithium-brine
286 × 193 × 104 cm
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Julian Charrière

Exhibition view at artgenève, Prix Moblilière 2018

Future Fossil Spaces – Set 9, 2017

salt from the Salar de uyuni, acrylic-containers filled with lithium-brine
286 × 156 × 150 cm
JC/S 39

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Julian Charrière

Tropisme, 2015

frozen plant, refrigerated showcase
208 × 66 × 66 cm
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Julian Charrière

Tropisme, 2015

heliogravure on handmade paper, 9 parts
67.5 × 53 cm each

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Julian Charrière

Gunung Merapi, 2018

belt-sander, abrasive-belt made from found minerals
22.6 × 31.5 × 178.5 cm
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Somewhere, 2014

video, color sound, 16 min 24 (Sound: Edward Davenport)
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Julian Charrière

Somewhere, 2014

video, color sound, 16 min 24 (Sound: Edward Davenport)
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Julian Charrière/Julius von Bismarck

Objects In Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear, 2016

colour video, 17'17", sound
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Julian Charrière/Julius von Bismarck

Objects In Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear, 2016

colour video, 17'17", sound
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Julian Charrière/Julius von Bismarck

Exhibition view at Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, 2018

Objects In Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear V, VII, II, 2016

archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
82 × 62 cm (framed)
JCJB/F 5

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Exhibition view at MAMbo, Bologna (Italy), 2019

Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did, 2019

Nutrient enriched plaster, water specimens from major international rivers, white glass vitrines in climate-controlled stainless steel showcase with double glazing
207 × 87.1 × 222.1 cm
Photo by Jens Ziehe
JC/S 1, 2, 3

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Selected Press

NZZ Sonntags Magazin

Naturgewalt

David Strei Corti

2019

Auch in der Kunst ist Klima Thema. Als ein Star der «Eco Art» gilt der Schweizer Julian Charrière. Kann, aber vor allem, soll die Kunst Umweltaktivismus betreiben?

NZZ

Diese Kunst ist radioaktiv verseucht

Annegret Erhard

8 June 2019

Der Schweizer Julian Charrière ist ein Umweltaktivist, der mit den subtilen Mitteln der Kunst arbeitet. Er bereist fotografierend, filmend, tauchend und experimentierend Asien, die Pole, Russland. Damit reiht er sich besonders erfolgreich in die heutige Avantgarde forschender Künstler ein.

Kunstbulletin 3/2019

Ein neues Bewusstsein für die Umwelt materialisieren

Irene Unholz

March 2019

Anhaltspunkte aus der Vergangenheit, aus dem Jetzt sowie Imaginationen der Zukunft ergeben keine linear verlaufenden, sondern eher sprunghaft verknüpfte Geschichten. Darin sind der Mensch, die Natur und das Digitale eng verwobene und interagierende Entitäten. Utopie und Dystopie liegen so nahe beisammen, dass sie bisweilen verschwimmen.

Monopol

Zwischen Schönheit und Katastrophe

Leonie Pfennig

10 October 2019

In der Kunst von Julian Charrière ist keine Mühe zu groß, keine Reise zu weit. Im schweizerischen Lugano zeigt er in einem neuen Film die düstere Erhabenheit von Eisbergen - und die Polarregionen als sterbenden Patienten

Art Magazin

APOKALYPSE WOW

Sandra Danicke

November 2018

Der Schweizer Julian Charrièere sucht für seine Kunst verstrahltes Gelände und andere vom Menschen geschundene Orte auf. Für sein neuestes Projekt tauchte er in die Tiefsee.

Kunstbulletin 3/2017

Julian Charrière — First Light

Céline Gaillard

March 2017

Im Zentrum der Ausstellung ‹First Light› von Julian Charrière steht eine neue Werkgruppe, die während eines einmonatigen Aufenthalts des Künstlers auf den Marshall-Inseln entstanden ist. Ein eindringliches – und dringendes – Werk zwischen Um- weltwissenschaft und Kulturgeschichte.

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